Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake Kramer, who has already turned pro, was rated the nation's No. 1 amateur tennis player; after him, and thereby the heir apparent, came robot Frank Parker...
...open secret was out. As everyone knew he would (TIME, Sept. 1), Big Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...
Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...
...vanquished three of the game's brightest stars-Jaroslav Drobny, Bob Falkenburg and Frank Parker-to reach the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tourney. Then he went down before 26-year-old Ted Schroeder, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, who in turn bowed to Big Jake Kramer, the champ...
Since Davis Cuppers Kramer and Schroeder plan to join up with the pros before the year is ended, Pancho at 19 is obviously a rising amateur who bears watching. Long out of favor with Southern California's amateur tennis czar Perry Jones because he wouldn't stay in school (TIME, May 19), Bad Boy Pancho is now behaving himself. As a result, he no longer has to play on public courts, enjoys the luxury of the swank private tennis clubs that Jones controls...